Scientists uncover warehouse-full of complex molecules never before seen in space

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 19, 2021

Scientists have discovered a vast, previously unknown reservoir of new aromatic material in a cold, dark molecular cloud by detecting individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules in the interstellar medium for the first time, and in doing so are beginning to answer a three-decades-old scientific mystery: how and where are these molecules formed in space? "We had always thought poly